Wednesday June 24, 2015
MaiBiz brings out the genius at Wainuiomata High By Aaron Meredith
The Pet Pillow was awarded the top prize at Wainuiomata High Schools MaiBiz event, and this was just one of many ideas that students came up with. MaiBiz is a three day course that travels around to schools, giving students a chance to become their own entrepreneurs, and design their own possible business. The program was bought to the school by Mark Douglas and Moana Tamaariki-Pohe, who both agree that the school children had some great ideas. “The idea is to inspire them about their potential for the future, and show them that going into business is not boring at all,” says Mark. “We bring in judges who give them feedback, which really is all about gearing them up for applying for university, where they may have to have an interview to get in.” The program travels all around the country, to about 2024 schools, and this is the third year that it has hit Wainuiomata High School.
inbrief news AGM Coming up The Development Wainuiomata AGM is being held on the last Friday of this month, and everyone is encouraged to come down and see what is happening. This will be held at 8.30am at Louise Bilderbeck Hall, Main Road, on Friday 26 June, following the monthly Business Breakfast. This month’s speaker at the business breakfast will be Conal McKenna from Boost on taking the hassles out of employment issues. All welcome at 7am, Louise Bilderbeck Hall, Main Road, cost $20, to register email devwoa@gmail.com or phone 564 5000.
Let's Make A Puppet.... Let's Tell A Story
WINNERS: Makoare Delves, Simon Appeh, Tumanako White-Rolleston, Jake McKechnie, Maya Ishizumi and Emily Tagaloa won the MaiBiz programme after designing the Pet Pillow.
The students really enjoy the programme as well, saying that it was great to get out of the classroom, while learning something different with people they don’t usually spend time with around school. The program also leads on
to a bigger program, Te Wero Pakihi, where the top students from around the country have a five day program up in Auckland that is very much like the programme The Apprentice. The students work with actual businesses while participating
in Te Wero Pakihi, all of which is intended to help the students grow. The winning group at the High School this year created the Pet Pillow, which has built in speakers that play music that is intended to calm pets.
Little Dog Barking is a leading puppet theatre for children, creating and presenting quality theatre works for early childhood, primary school and family audiences. During the July School Holidays in 2015, Little Dog Barking brings a public performance of "Let's Make A Puppet.... Let's Tell A Story". Plenty of free parking available. Suitable for ages 2 - 8 years old. The event will be held in the Epuni Community Hall, 37 Mitchell Street, Epuni, Lower Hutt on the 13th & 14th July 2015 - there are x2 performances each day at 10am and 11:30am.
High School side defeats Wellington Cops
Pennies from Heaven exhibition
By Aaron Meredith
The Alfred Memlink Artspace Gallery will be showing one of Wellingtons best known artists Mary Amour’s exhibition Pennies from Heaven. This takes place this Sunday between 10am and 5pm at the Gallery on the Esplanade in Petone. This exhibition will combine a retrospective collection of earlier work as well as a series of new paintings. After many years running her wonderful gallery and art supplies shop in Upper Hutt, Mary wants to focus more on her art and teaching.
Last Wednesday, the Wainuiomata High School 1st XV got a rare chance to play against some senior competition. The team played against the Wellington Police Rugby Team, the first fixture of its kind, and both teams were nervous at the start of the game. The Police scored first after a push over try, but Wainuiomata responded well with a couple of
tries of their own, although one was quite lucky. With only a minute to go the Police had the lead, that was until Wainuiomata fullback Michael Martin sliced through the Police defence, then outpaced the cover to score the winning try. The final score was 31-26 to the High School, although everyone at the game agreed it was one of the games of the season.
Wellington Police Rugby Coordinator Constable Stephen Cross says that the game provided a great opportunity to build relationships through sports with the students. “And for young people to look past the blue uniform and see that police officers are people just like them," he says. One of the highlights for the students was the opportunity to play with their coaches, and Assistant Principal Phillip Kauika
says the boys were delighted to come away with the win. “Many of the boys are being hailed as heroes throughout the school,” he says. “I’m sure our boys have developed a lot more respect for the men and women who wear the uniform from playing the match yesterday." The game was such a success that plans are already in place to make the fixture an annual event.
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